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Abstract
Although a growing body of research has investigated gendered pathways to crime, this study is the first to investigate whether varying levels of family support may constitute a gendered pathway to recidivism. Logistic regression analyses were used to determine the effects of emotional and instrumental support on self-reported reoffending in the 3-, 3- to 9-, and 9- to 15-month postrelease periods. Interaction terms revealed that higher levels of emotional support significantly reduced recidivism for both genders but had a greater effect for females. Whereas higher levels of instrumental support reduced recidivism for females, higher levels increased the likelihood of recidivism for males in some time periods. Implications for correctional policy and practice are discussed.
Notes
Further details on the measures can be found in Taylor (Citation2012).
Other related work using this same data set has also used multiple imputation to handle missing data (see Taylor, Citation2012, Citationin press). In the interest of space, and considering the finding in this other work that the results using listwise deletion and multiple imputation are substantively identical, the current study only reports results using listwise deletion.